Back to the past....riffing on THE PRESERVED

[David Morris]

Thanks.  I'd never heard of this Nabokov before.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2010, at 6:02 AM, David Morris wrote:
>
> But that doesn't eliminate the possibility of
> being born with some "memories" not personally gathered.
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> "I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one
> of the main characteristics of life is discreteness.
> Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists
> only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings.
> The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside
> or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion.
> It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do
> so is the end of the tender ego."
>
>                                   --Prof. Timofey Pnin
>
>